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I've experimented with several of these 1/2 to 1/4-sized mini gaming keyboards. Most of them have been passable to me. For those who claim they just do not understand the appeal or why someone would use them, I can't do anything for you. Commenting about how anyone would see the usefulness in this instead of just using their primary keyboard isn't going to go anywhere in this conversation. For those who do see some usefulness in these kinds of devices, let me tell you how this one shakes out in comparison to the others….

Here we are again, folks. I've been remiss in getting back to doing hardware reviews on a regular basis, but here's to correcting that in 2018. I've been going around the 'WERkz slowly but surely and re-capping a lot of my gear that is stuff that was just review units. The things that I did not really choose, but things that just wound up in the lab for various reasons.....

Earlier this year, I upgraded my 2015 MacBook (the bare-bones design model that returned the name to the current Apple lineup, sometimes referenced as the MacBook Zero). The MacBook was wonderful from a design aesthetic. But I often struggled with all of the dongle management required when I took it on a trip, and while I got used to iMovie, the number crunching of the MacBook in terms of encoding a video was abhorrently slow......

The state of flight simulators, DirectInput, and Flight Control Systems (FCS), is less than appealing these days. There are just certain things that I do not understand. I do not understand why games allow analog inputs to be recognizable for mapping to digital controls. I do not understand why Microsoft does not implement more granular controls over DirectInput device configuration within Windows itself, such as the ability to inhibit specific button or analog inputs in the Device Controller calibration / configuration screens. I especially do not understand why Windows and several games recognize many of my analog control inputs in the inverse axis to what they are in the real world......

I've owned the TeckNet Alpha Ergonomic 2.4G Wireless Optical Mobile Mouse for about five months now. I originally bought it as a review unit, but it's yet another piece of hardware that I brought into the lab and failed to complete the review in time to send it back as an RMA. No worries. Because I've actually been really happy with the ownership experience of this mouse......

Building a Small-Form Factor system is one of the major tech projects that I have been wanting to accomplish for a very long time. But it was always something. At times I was just too far out of touch with the PC parts industry and did not feel comfortable trying to figure out microATX and mini-ITX boards when I did not know my CPU lineage down pat and was not close to whatever AMD and nVidia were doing with GPUs. But last year I built two new gaming desktops,.....

The VG0020 was recently released, just back in December of 2016. It sells for $75.99 on Amazon right now, and carries an Average Customer Rating of 3.6. The cost makes it one of the least expensive solutions in a market that tends to see prices more around the $150 - $200 range. So for half the price, you can nab yourself one of the more competent solutions on the market.....

It was time for a new gaming mouse. Just for kicks, not for any one reason in particular. While I have plenty of full-sized gaming mice, smaller compact ones specifically to fill the space as my gaming mouse for travel, were not really part of my kit.....